High Hunt. David Eddings

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      Dedication

      For JUFELEE

      The more things change

      The more they remain the same.

      Contents

       Cover

      Title Page

      Dedication

      Prologue

      The Gathering

      1

      I guess that if it hadn’t been for that poker…

      2

      THEY weren’t ready to start processing us yet, so they…

      3

      A car pulled up outside, and Jack turned his head…

      4

      THE following Saturday I got out of the Army. Naturally,…

      5

      MIKE Carter and Betty, his wife, lived in a development…

      6

      IT wasn’t until Thursday that we finished up the deal…

      7

      ON Friday morning I went up to Seattle and picked…

      8

      “WHAT’S this doing here?” Clydine was standing over me the…

      9

      I worked—off and on—at the gun all the next week,…

      10

      I picked up Clydine about three thirty the next afternoon,…

      11

      THE following Wednesday, the first of September, we were all…

      12

      BY the next Saturday we were all getting things pretty…

      13

      ON Tuesday night we gathered at Sloane’s with all our…

      14

      IT rained all the next day. The sky sagged and…

      The High Hunt

      15

      SLOANE’S Cadillac was still leading, and at the summit he…

      16

      IT took us the better part of an hour to…

      17

      ABOUT three thirty that afternoon we crossed the second ridge…

      18

      WHEN the gun went off I think we all came…

      19

      MILLER split us up then and sent us on back…

      20

      “TIME to roll out.” Clint’s head blotted out the looming…

      21

      “YOU see any with any size?” Miller asked when he…

      22

      I woke up the next morning before Clint came around…

      23

      “MAN!” Jack said when I got back down to camp,…

      24

      SLOANE was much worse the next morning. Much as he…

      25

      I got up at the usual time the next morning…

      26

      “DAN,” Sloan gasped when I got up to him, “I’m…

      27

      IT drizzled rain all the next day. Miller had told…

      28

      AFTER he got back from taking Jack and Lou up…

      29

      AT lunchtime I rode up the ridge to pick up…

      30

      CLINT woke me the next morning, and I rolled out…

      31

      I went straight on down into the ravine, leaving Jack…

      32

      I don’t think either Jack or Lou said more than…

      33

      “I don’t know how the hell we’re gonna get all…

      The Parting

      34

      AFTER she left for class the next morning I called…

      35

      I didn’t see Stan until the next weekend. I’m not…

      36

      ON the first of October I moved to Seattle and…

      37

      I write a lousy letter. I always have. I knew…

      38

      AND so, after the holidays, Clydine Stewart, the terror of…

      39

      IT was a Thursday morning several weeks after Mother’s visit…

      Epilogue

      About the Author

      Praise

      Other Books by David Eddings

      Copyright

      About the Publisher